In the liver, the presence of liver injury marks, such as alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST), together with reduced platelet counts and albumin, was related to higher mortality among COVID-19 patients (Boettler et al., 2020; Guan et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020). The gene discussed is GPT; the disease is COVID-19.